Hand-bag.



T. Rr WEID BMANN HAND BAG APPLIQATION nun APR. so. 1908.

Patented Nov; 24, 1908.

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HAND-BAG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 24:, 1908.

Application filed April 30, 1908. Serial No. 430,065.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, THEODORE R. WEIDE- MANN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and Stateof New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Hand-Bag, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to packing and storing vessels and its object isto provide a new and improved hand bag, arranged to provide a large maincompartment and a plurality of supplementary compartments for thestorage of money, visiting cards,

handkerchiefs and other articles, to which convenient access can be hadwithout open- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improvement in aclosed position; Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same in an openposition; and Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the same and showing thesmall pocket book detached from its support.

The hand bag is provided with a main compartment A having a suitableclosing frame A of the usual construction, and on the sides of the saidmain compartment A are arranged pockets B, B having their sides extendedupwardly to form extension flaps C, C, reaching a desired distancebeyond the top of the frame A. On the inner face of the extension flap Care arranged compartments D, D, and a supplementary compartment D isarranged on the inner face of the flap C, and a small pocket book D orthe like may be detachably secured on the compartment D. Now the severalcompartments D, D, D and D may be used for storing money, visitingcards, handkerohiefs, manicure tools, hair pins and other articles, itbeing understood that convenient access can be had to any one of thecompartments without disturbing the others or the main compartment. Asthe extension flaps C, O reach beyond the top of the frame A and theframe A when closed gives a peakshaped appearance to the upper end ofthe main compartment A, it is evident that sufficient space is providedto readily accommodate the compartments D, D D and D without renderingthe hand bag bulky when the'flaps O and O are in a closed position, asshown in Fig. 1.

The flaps C, C are provided with bowshaped handles E, E, to permit ofthe user conveniently carrying the hand bag about,

and on the flap 0 is secured a closing strap Fadapted to be passed overthe top edge of theother closing flap 'C to the outer face thereof, thesaid closing strap F and the flap C being provided with suitablefastening devices G forfastening the free end of the closing strap F inposition on the flap 0.

The closing strap F is attached to the flap G at or near the middlethereof, so as to securely fasten the flaps C and O together.

The hand bag shown and described is very simple in construction, highlyornamental, and is provided with a large number of compartments in avery compact form.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

A bag or similar article comprising a main compartment and side pockets,the outer sides of the pockets being extended upwardly beyond the maincompartment, and provided on the inner faces with supplementarycompartments, a closing frame for the main compartment, a closing flapfor the extended sides, said flap being secured to one of the sides andprovided with means at the free end thereof for securing it to the otherside, and bow-shaped handles on the extended sides, the closing flappassing through the handles.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specificationin thepresence of Witnesses:

Tnno. G. Hos'ren, JOHN P. DAVIS.

